JAPAN: Rittoru Dahring

While pious Japanese celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the
tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in
braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters
celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon
and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly"
idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed
sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h."